Wall-bed pivot mounting



Patented Nov. 2?, 192@ stares PA'rer orifice.

NEIL SINCLAIR, OIF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR 'lG RIP VAN WINKLE VJALL BED COMPANY, INC., OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA.

WALL-BED PIVOT MOUNTING.

Application filed December 22, 1926.

This invention relates to wall beds of the revolving vertically pivoted type and has to do with specific pivotal mounting of the bed frame.

5 The objects of the invent-ion are to provide an improved pivotal mounting of the bed iframe in which, while the vertical pivots are considerably to one side of the vertical center of the bed frame yet the bed frame itself is lo supported in its center, also such a mounting which is preferably independent of the door, but is adapted to easy attachment or detachment of a door without disturbing the mountelements, also such a construction which will provide 'for quick installation and aligning of the members to insure free running, and withal such a construction which will be cheap and simple to construct and neat in appearance.

The drawings accompanying` this application show my preferred embodiment of the invent-ion, F ig. l being a vertical view in perspective ot the complete mounting element-s with the head trame or a metal bed secured in position, while F ig. 2 is a side elevation of the mounting showing it in place between the floor of a room and the head amb of a door- Ih the drawings the head frame of a bed is designated 1 and is shown secured to a verti cal pipe bar 2.

n This bar 2 stands in the vertical center of the frame 1 and is bolted thereto at 3 and secured by means of a bracket at el, while above and below these points the pipe bar is bent at right angles through gentle curves so as to lie parallel to the plane of the head frame and at the end the pipe bar is secured to upper and lower brackets 5 and 6 respectively by means of bolts 7 and 8 passing through slots 9 and 10 in the plates respectively and directly through the pipe, a spacing or seating washer as at 11 preferably being positioned between the pipe and the bracket.

Bracket 5 comprises an inverted L shaped plate with a pivot hole at 12 in the short leg adapted to receive the vertical downwardly extending pivot 13 secured to plate 14 which is adapted for securing to the head jamb 15 or upper lintel of a door trame as shown in Fig. 2.

Bracket 6 comprises a Z shaped plate with its lower leg apertured to receive a vertical upwardly extending pivot 16 secured toa plate 17 adapted for securing to the floor 18 Serial No. 156,311.

or lower door amb as indicated in Fig. 2 so as to bring the pivots 13 and 16 in vertical alignment.

This plate 17 it should be noted has a projection or lug 17 on one edge from which the pin 16 extends and this is important in avoiding an unsightly plate from showing below the door.

Vlhen in position the bed 'frame 1 will be seen to be rigidly supported on acentral vertical bar 2 swingable about vertical pivots 13 and 16 aligned on an axis as dotted at 19 passing vertically at a distance from one end ot the head frame equal to about al quarter ot" its width, or that is, laterally offset from the vertical center line of the head frame about a. quarter or third of its width, but still in a plane' parallel with the plane of the frame.

ln practice a washer is placed on the pivot under the lower bracket plate 6 to take the weight ot the bed as indicated at 23 in Fig. 2.

rlhe plates 5 and 6 present forwardly flat aligned surfaces against which a door 2O or other panel is adapted to be placed with its lower edge notched and resting on the outwardly turned flange of the Z plate and the panel secured in position by screws passing through the holes in the plates shown.

The lower rail 1 of the head frame of the bed is in the showing made oli' an angle iron and it rests upon the upper flange of the Z plate 6 and is secured thereto by a bolt 21 passing through a slot 22 in the plate.

By; the structure described the vertical bar with laterally offset ends forms a species of U or bar rigidly secured to the head frame of the bed and to the pivot brackets, and the slots and connections shown provide for quick adjustment 'for desired clearances and alignment, and placing or removal of the door without disturbing the mounting.

It should be understood that tho I only show the head trame 1 of the bed in position, that this frame pivotally carries the main body of the bed, not shown, on lower brackets 24 so that it may be swung to vertical osition or lowered to horizontal extension trom the head frame in the well known manner common to vertically pivoted wall beds but this all being ulterior to the invention in question has been omitted from this case. o

In operation the bed with or without a door in place on the brackets may be revolved about the vertical pivots to throw the bed to either side of the Wall :25 for letting down to sleeping` position, and the ollset arins ot the 5J bar inay be given any length desired so to effect an equal offsetting or lateral displacing of the bed relative to the vertical pivot axes When the bed is swung "roni one side of the Wall to the other, and also the bracket arrangement perinits of any Width of door being quickly mounted thereon or With any desired oiifset relation to the bed itself, thus adapting Vthe mounting to a Variety of conditions coininonly niet with in bed installations. Y

I claim:

l. A mounting for a Wall bed of the verticallyy pivoted type including an end :traine of a bed, a vertically disposed bar secured on its Vertical run to said end traine, o'iilset ends on said bar extending parallel to the plane of the frame, brackets vertically slotted and secured therethrough to said ends whereby the brackets are vertically adjustable on said bar, verticalpivot joints on said brackets, and said traine also secured to one or' said brackets through a slot in the same whereby the plane of the traine niay'be adjusted With respect to the vertical.

2. Ainounting for a Wall bed of the vertically pivoted type including` an end frame of a bed, a vertically disposed bar rigidly secured on its vertical run to said end frame, offset ends on said bar extending parallel to the plane of the frame, brackets secured to said ends, vertical pivotal joints on said brackets, and said traine also secured t0 the lovver of said brackets, means for adjusting said bar vertically With respect to said brackets, and ineans for adj usting the trarne horizontally on the lower one of' said brackets.

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